WebArchiv - long-term availability of the Czech electronic resources

In 2000-2001 the pilot project was investigated under the R&D program in the National Library of the Czech Republic the topic of which was to prepare conditions for involvement the online electronic resources into the Czech national bibliography and for the long-term preservation and making them available to users. These activities rely on the publishers and librarians cooperation such as the creators on the one hand and as the depositing and processing institutions on the other hand. It is necessary to provide the legislative issues concerning acquisition, archiving and users access permission as well. The project investigation requires ICT development and application for web resources harvesting, their digital archiving and long-term preservation, for the resources identification etc.
The pilot project investigation was concentrated on two ways of solutions:
1/ collecting and archiving the electronic resources published on the Czech web space, selected according to criteria stated from various points of view for the sake of the Czech national bibliography (precise registration using the library rules and formats for records);
2/ collecting and archiving the electronic resources published on the Czech web space, i.e. relatively comprehensive harvesting and relatively simple registration (automatic process).
The project known as WebArchiv is presented at the URL http://webarchiv.nkp.cz.

Author information:

The author has been working in the National Library of the Czech Republic since 1992, first as a researcher in the analysis & projecting department, consecutively as the chief of the special materials description department and at present she is dealing with the electronic resources issues, esp. the remote resources. In the years 2000-2001 she was responsible for the R&D pilot project titled Registration, preservation of and making availability to the Czech Internet resources funded by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.